Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Search engine marketing (SEM). This popular form of Internet marketing seeks to increase website ranking in search engine results. Techniques include search engine optimization (SEO) and paid result placement. Pay per click (PPC). Facebook alone has 800 million active members. Do you have a business presence there?

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 9, 2023

Data input and customer service are two examples of routine operations that could benefit from the use of automation software. To further improve firms' adaptability and productivity, cloud-based software can facilitate remote work and communication. Thanks to Jamie Miller, Treadmill Review ! #4-

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

In late 2011, Google announced an effort to make search behavior more secure. This encrypted their search queries from any prying eyes, and kept from being passed on to websites the users visits after seeing search results. In this post I want to share four angles on secure search: 1. want to protect user privacy.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 11, 2016

NEWS ,LIVE,ROCKS,ATTORNEY,REVIEWS, and.VIDEO. link or QR code as your call to action. What is the Search Engine Marketing (SEM) value of new domains? A controlled, PPC marketing study testing the use of different domain names to promote diamond jewelry found that new domain names have a dramatic impact on search engine results.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2010

Search engine marketing (SEM). This popular form of Internet marketing seeks to increase website ranking in search engine results. Techniques include search engine optimization (SEO) and paid result placement. Pay per click (PPC). Do you have a business presence there? Streaming video. You can use it for your business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2016

If you’re moving slowly or have yet to implement search engine optimization (SEO) strategies as part of your overall marketing efforts, you’re falling behind your competitors. to keep a user on a landing page, be sure that your landing page content delivers on the promises you made in your search results.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 12, 2016

Is PPC data showing in Google Analytics? Is site search tracking turned on? PPC Keyword ID’s Visible on Landing Pages. What It Is: When PPC keyword ID’s are visible on landing pages, they are harder to analyze because Google Analytics thinks they’re two different pages. Is it configured correctly?

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Up and Running

MARCH 3, 2021

Because pay-per-click advertising (PPC) needs to be an option you consider in order to reach your customers and stay competitive online. In this article, we will cover what exactly PPC marketing entails, why PPC marketing is a beneficial tool for small businesses, and some PPC basics and best practices to get you started.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 11, 2011

Examples of the tasks performed by the Turk community include translation, transcription, image tagging and even searches for missing persons. is the first company to devise s system to effectively crowdsource SEO (search engine optimization) services. prototype, build, and test their software. The United States Government.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 30, 2019

To find out who your top competitors are: Run a Google search; Check Google Trends, SimilarWeb, Compete, or Alexa. If your company doesn’t show up in search results or get clicked, you’ve got work to do. Reviewing a competitor’s online presence helps me understand how to differentiate my client. reviews, trust).

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

In theory, conversion optimization aims to improve the user experience, which, conveniently, is what Google wants to do as well with their top search results. It’s in Google’s self interest to provide the best search experience for the user. You’d think conversion optimization and SEO should play together nicely, right?

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Occam's Razor

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Direct traffic is a fantastic segment to analyze because it contains desirable Visitors and yet because it is often polluted (due to our own inability to implement web analytics tools correctly). If you are a little bit tech savvy then go get REL Software's Web Link Validator, it's pretty good. Click edit on your bookmark.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 25, 2016

For business owners and even for many marketing consultants, search engine optimization can seem like a headache – especially when it comes to any level of technical SEO. In fact, the previous head of Bing Search, Duane Forrester, said at an SMX conference that most people get schema wrong. What does Structured Data do?

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ConversionXL

MAY 11, 2017

To find out who your top competitors are: Do a Google search, check Google Trends, SimilarWeb, Compete or Alexa. If your company doesn’t show up in the search results or doesn’t get clicked on – you know you’ve got work to do. Reviewing a competitor’s online presence helps me understand how to differentiate my client.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Wordpress), video (YouTube), pictures (Flickr), review sites (Yelp) and collaborative content (Wikipedia). Next came search results based on people paying to be high in the result set. As John Battelle chronicles in his brilliant (and must read) book, The Search , Google thought this idea stunk. So did the media.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 26, 2011

A strong web design can help a restaurant to more effectively market itself, can help convert visitors who find the restaurant by searching, for example, on Yelp, shopping for a deal through Groupon, or searching on Google or Bing. Today, we’ll review 10 web design marketing best practices and tips for restaurant web design.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Will PPC look like this in 2020? Nonetheless, there are some amazing automation opportunities that make the life of Marketing Managers, CMOs, and PPC experts quicker and more efficient—especially for fast-growing companies that need to scale their campaigns. PPC automation is a massive topic. Probably not. Ad Testing.

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Software By Rob

JANUARY 12, 2010

As I was looking at traffic stats I noticed a huge increase in mid-November due to a number of write-ups on startup and web-2.0 I cover topics that affect software and web startups of all sizes, but mostly relating to startups you can fund yourself. 9 gives way to other PPC SE’s like Bing and Yahoo? 9 Ash on 02.09.10

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 19, 2020

It’s the same for search engine marketing. PPC has a role. Ask the following six questions to help SEO and PPC teams collaborate—and achieve better results than either could on their own. Are SEO and PPC teams communicating effectively and sharing insights? You wouldn’t hire a brain surgeon to treat your heart condition.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 29, 2016

To do so, they reached out to Mercenta (a retargeting software company) to help get more website visitors into their local Mazda dealerships by way of some smart PPC ads. Achieved CPAs that were 34% cheaper than non-brand search campaigns. Here are a few of them: Lead volume went up 81% despite a 30% PPC budget cut.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Here’s what you can test with this approach: Landing pages (especially recommended before you invest in PPC ). To (almost) force your users to really think about what they like/dislike/don’t understand about the content/design/offer they’re reviewing, ask them to write down their response after providing verbal feedback.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 7, 2022

For example, if your customer acquisition costs are high for PPC ads , you can move budget to a marketing strategy with a lower CAC. This is due to factors such as maturity, sales cycle, product value, purchase frequency, and customer lifespan. ad spend, agency fees, software, etc.)? Average CAC varies greatly across industries.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 24, 2020

Competing businesses may click on each other’s PPC ads to waste money. Loads of PPC platforms ( Google Ads included) allow you to blacklist IP addresses. . Loyal buyers of other brands don’t care about your ad budget or your search terms. Wired refers to these as “hordes of linked machines controlled by rogue software.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

For tips on creative effective calls to action, I suggest you review 10 Techniques For An Effective ‘Call To Action’ 2. Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized. You probably already know that search engines index sites based on the quality of content (and links). Content is important.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 27, 2010

For tips on creative effective calls to action, I suggest you review 10 Techniques For An Effective ‘Call To Action’ 2. Search engines prefer websites that are properly organized. You probably already know that search engines index sites based on the quality of content (and links). Content is important.

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Occam's Razor

JANUARY 7, 2007

In the past I have recommended Web Link Validator from REL Software as something we have had a positive experience with. It can do a lot more than check missing tags, see the website for all the features, so all around a good piece of software to have. Another cool benefit is that the async code collects more data, more accurately.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MARCH 28, 2016

For local businesses, having a local area code (as opposed to an 800 number) adds trust as well. You don’t have any Testimonials or Reviews. A 2013 study by Dimensional Research concluded that 90% of customers are influenced by online reviews – that is pretty much all of us. You don’t have a Physical Contact Address Listed.

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The Startup Magazine

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Generate Ratings and Reviews (Legally). When deciding which product to buy, consumers will choose the one with the most positive reviews. No one wants to buy a product with one 5-star review or a product with 700 3-star reviews. The reviews must be procured naturally. Write reviews for your own products.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

When WordStream began receiving complaints that the seven-day free trial of their PPC management software wasn’t long enough, the brand decided to A/B test 14-day and 30-day trials. In another example, let’s say most of your acquisition comes through organic search, but conversion rate to signups is lower than you’d expect.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2020

Did you know that Amazon has surpassed Google as the go-to search platform for shoppers looking for products? When customers have a specific product in mind, more turn to Amazon search than Google. The fundamental difference between Amazon and Google search. You run a search. This may come as a surprise to many readers.

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Occam's Razor

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Soul searching, questions to torture vendors with, comparing vendors, running a pilot and negotiating a contract, it's all in there. The best WA report, segmentation, site search, SEO & PPC analysis, email, rich media, cookies, data sampling. Review the book. You be off to the races right. I am out of breath!

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ConversionXL

JULY 10, 2014

For example, I once had a client that sold law office practice management software. When surveying the competition, their customers, and the market at large, I learned that most law offices wouldn’t even consider purchasing a practice management software unless they knew: That it was being used by real lawyers.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Click-Through Rate Definition The Conversion Rate Formula: How to Calculate Conversion Rate Bounce Rate: Everything You Want to Know and More How To Calculate and Increase Customer Lifetime Value PPC Click-Through-Rate: What it Means and How to Use It (and Improve It) How to Track and Improve Ecommerce Customer Acquisition Effectiveness.

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searchengineland.com

MAY 30, 2012

Search Week Newsletter. Search Month Newsletter. B2B Search Marketing. In House Search Marketing. Local Search. Mobile Search. Multinational Search. Paid Search. Search & Analytics. Search & Analytics. Search & Conversion. Search & Display.

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Software By Rob

MAY 4, 2009

A recent discussion in the Micropreneur Academy surrounded the topic of starting an online business selling physical products as opposed to software. But there are two downfalls of selling physical products compared to software: 1. Since I’ve worked on both sides of the fence I have a lot to say on the subject.

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ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

This division is done automatically by software (see the end of the article). Be clear on your business goals, benchmark your competition for ideas, dig in your web analytics data, conduct customer surveys, analyze search behavior on your site. 50% of the traffic is showed page A, and the other 50% is taken to page B. What about here?

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 1, 2015

Spanning the breadth of using content to generate leads, acquire prospects and convert customers, the book straddles content marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), social media and other related areas. They should create remarkable content which provides great utility, attract links from other websites, and rank well on search engines.

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